Embellish
[ im'beliʃ ]
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vt. 装饰;润色;修饰;
vi. 装饰起来;加以润色;
💡 词根助记
em使…进入状态+bell美好+ish动词后缀→进入美好→装饰
📝 例句
It caused him to seek to embellish his most incontestable achievements.
这使他想对自己最无可争议的成就加以吹嘘。
Can you embellish your refusal just a little bit?
难道你就不会对你的婉拒之辞略加修饰吗？
embellish a room with flowers
用花来装饰房间
I asked him not to embellish the truth with ideas of his own.
我要他不对事实添油加醋。
Serving to decorate or embellish;ornamental.
装饰性的用作装璜或修饰的；装饰的
🌱 联想助记
【记】※谐音“白理石”:大理石的一种用来装饰
※ belle-美女,谐音“贝勒(清代贵族的世袭封爵)”:身边美女如云
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
📖 牛津释义
embellish
v[Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (with sth)
1 make sth beautiful by adding ornaments, etc 美化、 装饰或修饰某物
a dress embellished with lace and ribbons 有花边和饰带的连衣裙.
2 improve (a story, statement, etc) by adding often untrue details, eg to make it more interesting or amusing 渲染; 添枝加叶（如使之更有趣、 更可笑）
He often embellishes the tales of his travels. 他常给他的旅游趣闻添枝加叶.
🔁 扩展释义
*[im'beliʃ]vt. 修饰, 装饰, 润色
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I like him the way he was.
我喜欢他过去的样子。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情无贵贱，贫负皆有之。
They decompose and are quickly destroyed by the weather or eaten by some other creature.
因为它们腐败之后很快就被风化掉，或被别的动物吃掉了。